A Small Family Business is a play by Alan Ayckbourn about the eponymous business and dealing with the Thatcherism of the time.

[1] It premiered at the Olivier stage of the Royal National Theatre on 20 May 1987, where it won the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for that year.

[2][3] Its Broadway premiere occurred on 27 April 1992.

[4] A radio adaptation directed by Martin Jarvis was broadcast at 8 p.m. on Sunday 12 April 2009 on BBC Radio 3 as part of the celebrations of its author's 70th birthday that day.

[5] Its cast included: In 2000, The Telegraph's Charles Spencer praised A Small Family Business as one of the "finest British plays of recent years" along with Tom Stoppard's Arcadia (1993).